Elena Pavan is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento. She holds a degree in Communication Sciences (University of Padova, Italy, 2004) and a PhD in Sociology (University of Trento, 2009). Her most recent research interests pertain to the relationships between collective action/political participation and digital media use. Within this area, she is working interdisciplinary combining technical and social knowledge as well as traditional qualitative and quantitative research methods with digital methods and big data approaches.

Arianna Mainardi
Scuola Normale Superiore Italy

Arianna Mainardi is a postdoctoral Researcher Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS). She holds a PhD in Information Society (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca). She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and at the Centre d’Analyses et d’Intervention Sociologique (CADIS), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). At SNS, she has been involved in the project “MAKERS – Movements as knowledge producers in the digital age”. Her research interests include Gender and Tech, Body & Sex, Digital culture, Social Research Methods, and Political Participation.